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Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.
John Lasseter
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John Lasseter
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: January 12
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People have a real love of looking at small worlds - something inside them is innately attracted to that 'miniature' realm.
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I think the painted backgrounds in animations are absolutely stunningly beautiful. There's something really special about this medium. I don't believe audiences have grown past it. I think what audiences love is to be entertained-thoroughly, deeply entertained, and that's what I've always set out to do.
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We make the kind of movies we like to watch. I love to laugh. I love to be amazed by how beautiful it is. But I also love to be moved to tears. There's lots of heart in our films.
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My mother was a high school arts teacher, so I was always surrounded by the arts
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This is what I always tell my filmmakers-you have to do tons of research, because you don't know where the inspiration is going come from.
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Your voice is worthwhile. Have faith in it.
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I love movies that make me cry, because they're tapping into a real emotion in me, and I always think afterwards How did they do that?
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I believe in the nobility of entertaining people and I take great, great pride that people are willing to give me two or three hours of their busy lives.
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'Bambi' is an amazing film, and when you watch it today, it's just as beautiful. It's timeless. It's just as beautiful today as it was back then.
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I always felt a little bit like a little kid that's never grown up in the world of adults.
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I think that the entertainment industry and the entertainment press tends to focus on opening weekend box office as a measure of the success of a film and I think the true success is out there in people's homes and how much they absolutely love these characters.
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You cannot base a whole movie on just the imagery alone. It has to be the story and the characters.
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What's fun about the story development at Pixar is it's a journey. You don't just write a script and then that's the movie you make. It's just constant evolution and being open to that and that collaboration with the voice actors and with the artists and animators at Pixar.
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The closer you get to reality, the harder it is to make it look convincing to the audience. That's why I tend to make things [films] that are a little bit more caricature.
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Animation is the one type of movie that really does play for the entire audience. Our challenge is to make stories that connect for kids and adults.
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One of the big technical advances that's really great looking is the water.
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When I look at the success I have, it's because of my creative thinking skills.
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Disney Infinity gives you the ability to be creative in a way that nobody's ever seen before.
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If you can think about it, you can create it.
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